Elamur LocationsSambir
A settlement in Ukraine; local name Самбір.
English name
Sambir — Current Ukrainian name, romanized under the Ukrainian national system of 2010, also adopted in the BGN/PCGN agreement of 2019; selected for present-day English use.
Other forms in use:
- Sambor — Historical Polish name used in English histories and family records.
- Sambìr — ISO 9:1995 letter-for-letter transliteration of the Ukrainian name; a systematic bibliographic/search form, not a claim of established English usage.
- Самбір — Ukrainian original-script name, included for recognition in quotations and indexes; not an English romanization.
French name
Sambir — Same spelling as in English; selected for current French use, without a fixed article. No place-specific Quai d’Orsay recommendation has been established here.
Other forms in use:
- Sambor — Polish historical form encountered in French accounts of the former Polish territories; not a modern French transcription.
About
Sambir is a town on the Dniester in Lviv Oblast, near the foothills of the Carpathians. Its old centre reflects its long history as a trading town in Galicia.
Notes
Do not confuse with Staryi Sambir, a separate nearby town. Romanization policy: https://mfa.gov.ua/en/correctua . ISO 9 forms are systematic search aids, not independently attested exonyms.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q156593 · JSON
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